Eagle Street Assisted Living

Marlene7

We put my mom in The Eagle Street Facility. It is part of the Mary T corporation. She was already in the Mary T system before, so that's why we went with Eagle Street. They even helped us get her there quick. She moved in September 9th. She has kind of settled in though we thought she would get angry and mad because she only has a little bedroom now. Eagle Street Facility is more like just a big house. They have 12 residents and each has his/her own bedroom but then they eat together and watch TV together, so it is like a home atmosphere. We looked at different senior living places. A lot of them were really huge buildings with very long hallways and we thought that that would confuse my mom as far as getting to where she needed to. We also didn't want her to have an apartment that has a kitchenette in it. We wanted her meals prepared for her. Back then, she kept complaining about diarrhea and we thought that she was just eating old foods that she had hoarded and kept in her refrigerator. Those foods made her sick. While here at Eagle Street, they prepare all her meals and make sure that she comes out of her room and down to the dining room to eat with everybody. They would give them cookies and stuff during the middle of the day as a treat. My mom keeps saying the food is good. I had gotten there when they've finishing up to eat and it looked like they give them good portion and it didn't look all that bad. They have activities for them to do. They even took her back to where she used to live and she took her ceramic class. They do try to entertain them. They do exercises three times a week. For me, they are really set up to help these people and take care of them. However, there was one incident when my mom locked herself in her room and they couldn't find the key. The next morning, she got out of her bed and fell, but still they couldn't get into her room. They ended up calling the fire department and breaking the door down to get to her and helped her eventually. We had asked them about the key, but it turned out that the maintenance guy didn't give the owner the key the day before and then the next day, that's when she fell. We were upset with that incident. However, except for that, they've been really good to her. They talk to her, help her, etc. She has fallen a couple of times, but that's because she didn't ask for help. There was a pull cord that she could use at that time but she tried to get up and walk on her own.